Seán Dagher on the life of a Shanty Man, singing in pubs to welcoming and not-so-welcoming crowds, and composing modern sea shanties for Black Flag Resynced
Seán Dagher has sung for the Assassin's Creed games since AC3, and his role steadily grew to the point where he was composing modern sea shanties based on historical material for Black Flag Resynced.
Sea shanties in general have been resurging in popularity, and Dagher has no doubt that gaming is the biggest factor.
He goes through his process in this interview of curating verses (one shanty might have over 100 traditional verses to choose from), composing new but historically faithful material, and recording with the Assassin's Creed and Windrose producers, as well as other interesting projects like recreating French Trobairitz songs for which the melodies were lost to time.
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